*** Preference is given to names showing relationships [[History_of_Fedora_release_names | never before used in a release]].

*** Preference is given to names showing relationships [[History_of_Fedora_release_names | never before used in a release]].

*** Names of living people or well-known trademarks or goods will be rejected by Red Hat Legal. Try to find a more unusual link.

*** Names of living people or well-known trademarks or goods will be rejected by Red Hat Legal. Try to find a more unusual link.

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*** Names must not contain any shell metacharacters. Note that you can use replacements from the Unicode such as U+2019 instead of the ASCII apostrophe.

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*** Names must not contain any of the following characters which are special to the shell: <pre> | & ; ( ) < > { } ' " #</pre> Note that you can use replacements from the Unicode character set such as U+2019 instead of the ASCII apostrophe.

** Document preliminary searches showing the name is not encumbered by trademarks or other use that makes it a bad or risky choice.

** Document preliminary searches showing the name is not encumbered by trademarks or other use that makes it a bad or risky choice.

Revision as of 18:29, 1 May 2013

Summary

Beginning with Fedora 11, name suggestions are solicited through a wiki page.

To suggest a name, a community member must:

Show how the name meets the "is-a" test. For example, "Schnozz is a ____, and so is Keister."

Names for releases N and N+1 must be related, and names for releases N and N+2 cannot share the same relationship.

The "is-a" relationship must be reasonably novel. For example, "is a brand of automobile" is reasonably novel. The relationship "is a brand of automobile only manufactured in Uzbekistan" is much better. The relationship "is a word with seven letters" is not sufficiently novel.